Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13
The College.

Considerable interest has been aroused over the
C. Fl. Granny contributes the following to the
Garden City Herald:
The next session Of the district conference will
be held at Garden City. February 24th, when one
session will be devoted TO the educational interests
of the church, and would be a timely opportunity
for this city TO take formal action TO secure
this college. The last annual conference named
the territory composing the presiding elder work,
Garden City district, thus giving the city proni-
hence. In all probability new annual conference
Will be formed in few years. with Garden City as
the geographical center and ecclesiastical head
quarters Already nine Of the clergy Of the N. E.
church have located here, and built, or will build
houses. The residence Of A P. George, presiding
elder should be secured by all means for the next
years to come, as his influence the district, and
in the conferences, is very important. His house
rent would only be a drop IN the bucket compared
with his help in advancing our moral and educa-
tional interests. Garden City will have two lay
men and one minister as trustees, appointed at
the next annual conference. Let the city rise up
and be heard from on this subject.
The Herald also INDUCES in the hope that Gar
den City will secure the college The bad ''char-
acter'' Of Dodge City is served to show that this
city should not the location of the college,
OF course the people in Garden City are all saints
even the pious editor of the Herald is a saint
But Garden City's little hell is no comparison to
follows
The Methodist church will bald & college at
some point in southwestern Kansas, and it will be
a gigantic institution, costing seventy-fve or one
hundred thousand dollars. 1t will grow year by
year. and become one Of the fixed institutions of
the state, and will WELD powerful Influence OF
good. 1t Will cause hundreds of people to locate
at the town where it is placed, for the parpose of
educating their children. and in that respect will
be an invaluable help to society as well as an i'm
EOrtaQt factor growth
safe to say that the institution will be located
either at Dodge City or this place. Dodge is very
anxious to get it and is going TO do everything in
its power before it lets it 60 elsewhere The
church would prefer to locate it here because Of
the superiority of our society and favorable out
look for railroads, besides it will be much easier to
secure contributions for such institution at this
place than at Dodge. There is something in a
name, and the odium that is connected with the
early history Of Dodge initiates against it as the
seat OF q religious institution. No town in the
west has better society than Garden City, and
none where the laws more rigidly enforced, and
these facts furnish convincing and irresistible
argument in favor of this place site for an ed
ucational institution. Parents will not send their
children to place where the open saloon invites
to a life of shame hence the outlook for Garden
City is very favorable. The town will be called
upon TO give the necessary land and make dona-
ton to the building fund, but the expenditure will
come back many times the first year in addition
to our population and the betterment of society
meeting should be called and some decided eff
fort made to secure this institution. One of the
first steps that the Herald would advise is to invite
Rev. A. p George, the presiding elder of this dis
trict, to come to Garden City and make his home
He now resides in Sreareville lie is one of the
ablest preachers in western Kansas and would be
valuable addition to the ministerial force OF Gar
den City.
Larned will make an effort TO secure the loca-
ton Of the college. The Chronoscope says:
Larned will DO all in her power to secure the
college by offering good bonus to the association
We centrally located in this western country
and VIII have railroad facilities that other
town can boast of. We also have all the late i'm
provements and advantages of first class city.
On this subject the Cimarron New West says
At the last session of the Garden City District
conference Of the n. e. Church, it decided to
build a rev college to meet the wants of south
western Methodsm. The church has colleges at
Salna, Baldwin City and Winfield, but these are
too distant for the young people of this region.
college well located will draw pupils from ter
ritory 200 miles square 1t ia evident that Garden
City, Dodge City or CimarTon viii be selected. 1t
viii depend largely on the local donations, and
CimarrOn will be on hands prepared to make the
a beautiful site. We have an upright moral peo-
pie, among whom parents viii not fear to send
their children. Ours is healthy place. We will
be well supplied with churches and appropriate
amusements. Let our business MEN reflect on the
advantages OF having some two hundred students
from abroad in our midst during eight months of
every year. Then, the intellectual stimulus which
our community will received will be sufficient
reconpence for the most liberal donation we may
make the college. Prepare to make good offer
and We may have the college.